VST3 instrument In development
A synth with
something to say.
Shape saw waves and breath into talking basses, elastic leads, choirs, and rhythmic chatter. A vocal synthesizer with a mouth of its own, and motion in every phrase.
- Atlas voices
- 32
- Gesture patterns
- 100
- Factory sounds in development
- 400
01 / Factory presets
Hear Maw.
A few presets from the factory library. Leads, bass, pads, and moving textures, using Maw’s own effects.
Liquid Slide
Connected notes, shifting vowels, and a slow pitch-shifting echo.
Photon Slurp
Rising pitch scoops and short echoes in a syncopated lead.
Chrome Squelch
Syncopated bass stabs with metallic vowels.
Glass Larynx
Minor chords with a hollow vocal tone and shifting echoes.
Liquid Planetarium
Granular chords with slowly opening vowels.
Growl Sub
Rough vocal bass in a broken rhythm.
Tongue Trill
Held notes with fast, opposing mouth movements.
Ee Constellation
Staggered high notes over sustained vowels.
Rift Mauler
Pulsing formant bass over a solid sub, with short syncopated hits.
Recorded from the development build. No external instruments or effects; playback levels have been adjusted for these demos.
02 / Shape it
Start with a mouth.
Blend two of 32 Atlas voices, then change the mouth’s size, aperture, and articulation. Four formants let you tune the resonances that give a vowel its character.
Saw waves, breath, and bite feed that vocal tract. Push toward a familiar vowel, stretch it into a metallic bass, or soften it into a choir.
03 / Perform it
Turn vowels into phrases.
Explore 100 Gesture patterns for connected syllables, rhythmic chatter, and evolving vowels. Adjust Slur, Accent, and Variation, then use Motion A and B to move other parts of the sound.
Every factory preset has an expressive mod-wheel mapping. Start with one of 400 sounds and play the movement into your part.
Let a lead slide.
Legato and glide connect single-note lines.
Give chords one mouth.
Notes pass through a shared vocal tract.
Let each note speak.
Eight-note polyphony, with an independent mouth for every note.
Inside the instrument
Carry the voice further.
Two serial effects banks lead into three-band OTT and saturation, with a clean sine sub underneath. Shape the space around a voice and the weight below it from inside the patch.
For other tonal worlds, choose from 32 included scales or load Scala and AnaMark tuning files. Tunings travel with your presets and projects.
Development captures. Controls and preset browsing may differ from the latest build; the interface may change before release.
In development
More to say.
Maw is in active development. These sounds and interface captures offer a look inside the instrument. Public downloads and final release information are not available here yet.